Finding relationships between authors and thematic similar publications is getting harder and harder due to the mass of information
and the rapid growth of the number of scientific workers. The
io-port.net portal and the
DBLP Computer Science Bibliography including more than 2,000,000 and 750,000 publications, respectively, from more than 450,000
authors are major services used by thousands of computer scientists which provides fundamental support for scientists searching
for publications or other scientists in similar communities.
In this paper, we describe a user–friendly interface which plays the central role in searching authors and publications and
analysing social networks on the basis of bibliographical data.
After introducing the concept of multi-mode social networks, the DBL–Browser itself and various methods for multi-layered browsing through social networks are described.